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ArticleHicks Logistics secures five-year UK Platforms deal
Hicks Logistics is celebrating 40 years in business with a £30m contract renewal with powered access specialist UK Platforms.The five-year deal puts the icing on the cake for the Caldicot, south Wales-based logistics company, which will supply more than 40 semi low-loaders and rigid beavertails for use by UK Platforms ...
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CM Downton renews contract with Glatfelter
CM Downton has renewed its contract with paper and engineering specialist Glatfelter, continuing a relationship that started in the 1990s. Downton manages all aspects of Glatfelter's operations, including warehousing of raw materials and finished goods and delivery to manufacturing plants and distribution of products across the UK. Though Downton manages ...
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Yusen Logistics signs Hoover Candy deal
Yusen Logistics has won what it describes as a "major" contract with Hoover Candy for UK-wide supply of its entire product range to independent retailers.Yusen will collect products such as freestanding and built-in laundry, cooking, cooling and floor care appliances from Hoover's warehouse in Merthyr Tydfil for cross-docking and onward ...
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Clipper Logistics wins five-year contract with Edinburgh Woollen Mill
Clipper Logistics has signed a five-year deal with Edinburgh Woollen Mill.The operator will provide services on “a predominately exclusive basis”.Steve Parkin, executive chairman of Clipper, said: “Clipper began its relationship with Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group last year.“I am delighted that throughout a detailed tender process, we have been able to ...
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XPO Logistics partners with chemical and lab specialist VWR International in three-year deal
XPO Logistics has won a three-year contract to provide logistics for chemical and laboratory specialist VWR International. XPO will manage distribution of the firm’s pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial and healthcare, products across 9,000 UK facilities.It will be required to make next-day and timed deliveries, while handling hazardous goods and substances that require ...
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ArticleExpect Distribution extends Astonish deal for three years
Expect Distribution, winner of the Business Excellence Award at the MT Awards earlier this month, has won a three-year extension to its contract with cleaning products manufacturer Astonish.Expect has handled all logistics and distribution for Astonish (which has a HQ neighbouring Expect’s site in West Yorkshire) over the past six ...
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DHL Supply Chain wins "transformational" EasyJet deal from Menzies Aviation
DHL Supply Chain will begin ground handling operations at London Gatwick Airport for EasyJet on 1 November, replacing Menzies Aviation.EasyJet said that all three parties would be focusing on “a seamless transition over the coming months… enabling affected staff to move over to DHL” adding that Menzies remained a strategic ...
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ArticleCeva Logistics renews UK Power Networks contract
Ceva Logistics has renewed its contract with UK Power Networks for five years. The operator has held the deal with UKPN since 2009, which gives Ceva responsibility for the storage and distribution of its cable, plant and other materials.Ceva is also responsible for the disposal of used electricity meters and ...
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Nisa and DHL Supply Chain extend contract
Motortransport.co.uk has learnt that DHL Supply Chain was reappointed as logistics partner for retailer Nisa in the UK back in April, as well as winning the contract for the Republic of Ireland.DHL took complete control of Nisa’s logistics operations in 2011, and has a relationship with the business that stretched ...
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ArticleXPO Logistics hops into warehousing deal with BrewDog
XPO Logistics is to provide warehousing for craft beer company BrewDog. The brewery has outgrown its storage facilities, having grown from a two-man team in 2008 to an employer of more than 600 people, shipping beer to more than 55 countries.Bottles, cans and kegs of BrewDog beers will be stored ...
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Next and DHL Supply Chain renew for three years
DHL Supply Chain has renewed its two-man delivery contract with Next for a further three years.As part of the deal, DHL will not only continue to deliver furniture items to Next customers throughout the UK but it will provide flexible delivery options such as timed delivery slots and in-home product ...
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ArticleCM Downton wins Smiths News contract
News distribution specialist CM Downton has secured its first contract with Connect Group's Smiths News. Smiths News, sister company to Tuffnells Parcel Express, has a 55% market share of the news distribution industry.Downton's contract with the group will see the operator perform multiple daily trunks of magazines between a Smiths ...
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XPO Logistics plays it cool with Fujitsu General Air Conditioning contract
XPO Logistics has won a new contract with air conditioning business Fujitsu General Air Conditioning (UK). Transporting around 11,000 pallets of air conditioning units a year, XPO one- and two-man crews will deliver the products to offices and industrial buildings across the UK.Additionally, the operator will store 4,000 pallets of ...
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XPO Logistics renews Adama Agricultural Solutions contract
XPO Logistics has renewed its contract with crop protection firm Adama Agricultural Solutions. The operator provides warehousing and distribution for 1.6 million kg of Adama's products a year out of its Aber Park, Derbyshire site.XPO's fleet will deliver 200 products to 232 delivery points across the UK for the firm, ...
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XPO Logistics to run national distribution for Arco
XPO Logistics has won a national distribution contract with safety equipment manufacturer Arco, in a deal that will see it manage Arco’s £4m, 27,000m2 NDC in Hull.XPO will manage the movement of some 60,000 pallets a year for Arco from the Hull RDC to 11 regional hubs and onwards to ...
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ArticleYusen Logistics wins Glenmark Pharmaceuticals contract
Yusen Logistics will now handle all products destined for the UK from pharmaceutical manufacturer Glenmark as part of a major contract win.As a result Yusen will provide temperature controlled pallet storage and pick and pack, as well as managing final mile delivery nationwide in the UK (on a Day one ...
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Southern Salads a 'significant win' for NFT
NFT has won what it has described as a “significant contract” to provide UK-wide temperature-controlled distribution to Southern Salads.Given the seasonal supply demands associated with sales of salad products, the deal sees Southern Salads move away from its own transport fleet and utilise not just NFT’s, but also NFT's wider ...
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ArticleExpect Distribution secures three-year Lansinoh Laboratories contract
Expect Distribution has signed a three-year warehousing and distribution contract with Lansinoh Laboratories, a supplier of breastfeeding products.Under the new deal, Expect will take delivery of shipments, store them in its recently expanded (by 20,000ft²) warehouse facility at Premier Point, Bradford, pick and distribute them.Expect will warehouse approximately up to ...
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Clipper Logistics wins pan-European fancy dress deal
Clipper Logistics has signed a pan-European contract with fancy dress supplier Smiffys to handle inbound stock management, storage, fulfilment and returns.Tony Mannix, chief executive of Clipper, said that the business had been running a “highly successful” operation for Smiffys in Kempen [Germany] for “some time”.“We have been working collaboratively with ...
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ArticleAbbey Logistics Group wins Tata Chemicals and British Salt deal
Abbey Logistics Group has won a deal with Tata Chemicals and its sister company British Salt to manage bulk transport and logistics for the two firms'products.The Liverpool-based firm, which specialises in the transportation of bulk food products in liquid and powder tankers, has worked for several years as a third-party ...